She’s best known to international audiences for her role in ‘Jules et Jim’, Francois Truffaut’s 1962 movie, and also won the prestigious Cannes Film Festival Best Actress prize for ‘Seven Days… Seven Nights’ in 1960.

Nick Ackerman/Penske Media/REX/ShutterstockJeanne in 1969

Jeanne frequently worked with visionary Orson Welles, who once called her “the greatest actress in the world”, but her career went far beyond acting as she also released a number of albums and once sung with Frank Sinatra.

In 1983, she led the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival, and also received a Bafta Fellowship prize for her contribution to the film industry in 1996.